Walter Bagehot: “Those merits of the Lords have faults close beside them which go far to make them useless.”

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.